National Anti-Corruption Department is politicized

ZIUA is the first to provide you with the conclusions reached after inspection by the CSM (Superior Council of Magistracy), concerning the objections raised by Daniel Morar, head of the DNA (National Anti-Corruption Department). They unveil severe illegalities.
The CSM inspectors ran into criminal cases kept hidden or muffled, severe law breaks and ungrounded phone call interception. Although over 100 cases were delayed, Daniel Morar was fast in providing protection to the Romanian President's adversaries. The solutions to such cases depend on interests, not on the "apprehension date"...
In order to avoid certain cases, Daniel Morar made use of accounts including terms such as "registration date" and "apprehension date". According to the report now reaching the Prosecutors Department in the CSM, the head of the DNA ordered checks on older cases, there were emphasized 67 cases, although there were actually 118 cases.
In 9 months prosecutor Aristotel Popa worked nothing for the 18 cases he was in charge of, but his superiors took no measures, although the law demanded them to. Deputy prosecutors Carmen Galca and Doru Tulus were supposed to supervise and coordinate the activity of the experts working for the Experts Department, but they sabotaged the expertise, in fact.
In the report there is also mentioned: "Checks unveil 77 cases on which prosecutors did not use the criminal inquiry activity". It was such delay habit that saved President Basescu in the famous Fleet case, but this is not the only situation of the kind on this political side.
To put it brief, the final conclusions are devastating for all the officials of this institution meant to fight corruption, who have been using persuasion these days to get some disquieting paragraphs out of this report. The latter is reaching the Prosecutors Department in the CSM today and it should effect in sanctions against the DNA officials, if CSM members take responsibility for their observations. And there is one bothering question: since more than 100 cases have been delayed because of insufficient time, how come the DNA has found the time to work so fast on those cases against some adversaries of Presidency ? (...)

Silviu Alupei & Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua monday 8 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english